LonRom Film Production has confirmed the UK & Irish cinema release of A Year in London, arriving from 17th July — a tender, sharply observed LGBTQ+ romance from award-winning director Flaminia Graziadei.
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Set against the pulse of London and the sun-warmed textures of Southern Italy, the film follows a sheltered Italian fashion student stepping into the city for the first time. What begins as a formative year of study and self-discovery becomes something far more complicated when she forms an intense, intimate bond with her brilliant mentor. After the two survive a violent robbery, their connection deepens — but so do the stakes. Suddenly, ambition, boundaries, and the love neither of them feels ready to name collide head-on.
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Starring Melanie Liburd, who won Best Actress at the California Women Film Festival, alongside Italian talent Nina Pons, A Year in London explores passion and identity with a modern sensibility, weaving sustainable fashion into the emotional architecture of the story. The film was showcased at the 41st Lovers Film Festival in Turin, Italy, where it received a special panel presentation on 19th April, signalling its cultural relevance beyond the screen.
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Visually, the film creates a striking dialogue between locations, shot across Basilicata, Rome, and London — a contrast that mirrors the characters themselves: different worlds, different expectations, and a shared vulnerability they can’t quite outrun. The cast also includes Carlotta Morelli and Matteo Bassi, rounding out a story that feels intimate yet expansive in its emotional reach.
For Graziadei, A Year in London is deeply personal — a project shaped by lived experience and the people who have passed through her life. She describes it as bringing together “different phases of my life along with those of the people I have met over the years,” anchored by a love story between two women from contrasting backgrounds. Importantly, the film also speaks to inclusivity and sustainability within fashion, incorporating specially created and adapted collections as part of the narrative rather than treating them as background detail.
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Balancing authenticity with a universal emotional pull, Graziadei looks forward to sharing the film with UK audiences — inviting viewers into a world of characters “speaking, loving, moving,” framed by “the evocative and beautiful locations we have chosen.” In A Year in London, romance isn’t presented as a neat destination, but as a risk — one stitched together in the aftermath of trauma, under the pressure of ambition, and in the quiet moments where identity finally has room to breathe.
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Images provided, courtesy of Strike Media
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